Gardens Without Boundaries by Paul CooperCall Number: SB472.45 C65
ISBN: 1840007389
Publication Date: 2003
"One of the most important aspects of garden design has always been the relationship between a garden and its surrounding landscape. A desire to conceal or blur the boundary that defines a garden, the wish to extend the garden into the landscape beyond, or to "borrow" it, so that it becomes an extension of the designed garden, has been a recurring ambition of garden designers. From the formal Renaissance gardens of Versailles, where long vistas were designed to give the illusion of the garden disappearing into infinity, to the eighteenth-century "ha-ha" that concealed the boundary between garden and countryside, designers have often used deception in creating gardens. Gardens Without Boundaries looks at the ways in which today's leading garden and landscape designers -- including Dan Kiley, Oehme & van Sweden, Steve Martino, Julie Toll, Susan Childs, and Fernando Caruncho -- have concealed boundaries, disguised and blurred edges, or brought "nature" up to the house, in order to link both small and largescale private gardens to the landscape beyond." -- From the publisher.